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My Favorite Rulers™ by Marti Michell:

  • 2 Strip Cutting Rectangle Rulers: 6" x 24" & 3" x 18"

  • Squaring-Up Ruler: 6 1/2" x 6 1/2"

Marti Michell's Perfect Patchwork Systems Templates won the Best New Product Award with the first 4 sets of templates A-D. In 2004 Marti was named the 2004 recipient of the Silver Star Award, The award is presented annually to "a living person whose body of work has positively influenced, promoted and developed the art of quilting."

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My Favorite Ruler 6 x 24
Strip Cutting
6" by 24"

My Favorite Ruler 3 x 18
3" by 18"

Squaring-Up Ruler
Squaring-Up Ruler
6 1/2" Square

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My Favorite Rulers™ for Quilt Making by Marti Michell

Special Feature found on the My Favorite Rulers to help you find the measurement:

All My Favorite Rulers feature unique symbols to make each line distinctive and to create as much open area as possible to maximize seeing the edge of the fabric.

  • When you see in the vertical rows, each crossbar is registering a 1/8" mark.

  • Likewise, the ends of the symbols that you find at half-inch intersections extend 1/8" from the center of that intersection

  • Dots are always on 1/8" increments of the short edge of the ruler, and on a 1/4" mark or a 3/4" mark on the long dimension of the ruler.

My Favorite Ruler™
6" x 24"

Mfg: From Marti Michell
Item Code: MMFR6
Weight: 1.10 lb
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Ruler close-up to show you some of the great advantages.

1. Numbered left to right or right to left. Easy to use whether for the right- or left-handed user. No twirling around the ruler to find the numbers.

2. Visually strong verticals. The most common use for this ruler is cutting strips so the legibility of the vertical lines and numbers is emphasised. Heavier lines every half-inch making counting easier. At the eight-inch and 16-inch markers are an additional set of inch-mark numbers so your eyes don't have to go the length of the ruler to confirm a measurement.

Eighth-inch, quarter-inch and half-inch lines are visually distinctly different.

3. Only one color lines maximized with the spaces between the guidelines for easier alignment.

4. Useful angle lines. Most quiltmakers use the 45 degree angle lines more frequently than 60 degrees, so 45 degrees at both ends in both directions (thus eliminates picking up the wrong end like you do on other ruler brands).

60 degrees angle lines are separate so as not to be confused with other lines. 30 degrees is not marked on this ruler. Omitting that angle reduces confusion. It is marked on our 60 degrees Triangle-Rulers because that is when the 30 degrees angle is used.

5. Clean quarter-inch all around the perimeter. There are times when you want to add a quarter-inch. The last eighth-inch line around the perimeter is reduced to a minimum to make a more open quarter-inch for checking seams, adding seam allowances, etc.

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My Favorite Ruler™
3" by 18"

Mfg: From Marti Michell
Item Code: MMFR3
Weight: 0.80 lb
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Ruler is shown close-up so you can see some of its great advantages

All the things that will make you love the 6" x 24" ruler, (see above) including the 60 degree angle marks, apply to our 3" x 18" ruler, except there are no additional inch-mark numbers in the interior of the ruler.

 

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My Favorite Ruler™
Squaring Up Ruler
6 1/2" x 6 1/2"

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Item Code: MMFR6
Weight: 0.40 lb
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Squaring up is very different from just plain measuring. On this ruler, the numbering goes from one corner along two sides. It does not go both left and right.

The entire ruler is gridded using the same symbols as seen on the two larger rulers, in addition, there is a shadow that follows every inch mark, turns a corner and connects to make seeing squares very easy.

Right-handers generally put the focal corner in the upper right while left-handed cutters will position and measure from the upper left.

When those two exposed edges are trimmed, the fabric piece is rotated so that the trimmed sides line up with the correct measurement and the untrimmed sides are ready to be cut.

There is one 45 degree diagonal line. Many people like to use that when they square up half-square triangle pairs.

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Perfect Patchwork System Templates & Related Books From Marti Michell

The Perfect Patchwork System
Volume 1: Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks:
Use with Template Sets A & B
Set A templates Set B

NOTE: Volume 1 has the Rosette Block demonstrated on Simply Quilts

Vol. 4 Perfect Patchwork System, EncyclopediaThe Perfect Patchwork System
Volume 2:
Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks
Use with Template Sets A & C, B & D
Set A templates Set B
Set C Set D

Eight-Pointed StarsVol. 4 Perfect Patchwork System, EncyclopediaThe Perfect Patchwork System
Volume 3: Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks
Use with Template Set E for
Eight-Pointed Stars
Set E
7x7 and 5x5 patch blocks
Vol 4
The Perfect Patchwork System
Volume 4:
Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks
Use with Templates Set L and M
for 7x7 and 5x5 patch blocks

Set L Set M
Hexagon BlocksVol. 6 Six is for HexagonsThe Perfect Patchwork System
Six is for Hexagons, Volume 6 of the Encyclopedia of Patchwork Blocks
Use with Templates Set G and H for

Set G Set H
Cover to Sunburst Quilts to MakeBlocks from Sunburst Quilts
Sunburst Quilts to Make

Use with Template Set F

Laminate Strip Cutting Chart
Laminated Strip Cutting Charts:

Templates A & C
Templates B & D

Corner Trimmer
Corner Trimmer Template

8073
Set A templates
Set A:
3" (7.6 cm) Square Basic Set

Set B templates
Set B:
4" (10 cm) Square Basic Set

Set C templates

Set C: 3" Square Bonus Set

Set D templates
Set D:
4" Square Bonus Set

Set E Templates
Set E:
12" 8-Pointed Star

Sunburst Templates
Set F:
3 Sunburst Quilts Instructions
Hexagons
Set G
Set G:
(9) Hexagon Templates
cut 11 shapes with 2" and 1" sides

Hexagons
Set H
Set H:
(3) Large Hexagon Templates
cut 11 shapes with 3" and 1 1/2" sides



School House Blocks
Set J 6"
Set K: 12"

Set L TemplatesBlock example for Set L
Set L:
The 12" Seven-Patch Block Set

Set M Templates Block Example, Set M
Set M:

The 12" Five-Patch Block Set

Mini Geometrics
Set N:
Mini Geometrics
Based on 1" and 3/4" Hexagon, Eight Point Stars


Set P
Set O
19 5/8" Feathered Star Set
Set P
27 5/8" Feathered Star Set

 

Set 0 Q is for quilting
Set Q
Q is for Quilting
Last Common size for 5" to 20" Blocks



Set R 8019
Peaky & Spike
Makes 5" to 15" Blocks

Double Wedding Ring Templatesexample
Double Wedding Ring Templates

Drunkard Path Block
Drunkard Path Template
Templates
Drunkard Path Templates

2 Different Sized Sets

Windy Ways Block
Templates
Winding Ways Block Templates

Dresden Plate Pattern
Dresden Plates Pattern &/or Templates

Dresden templates
Set 1: 7", 10 1/2" and 12"
Dresden templates
Set 2: Mini Dresden Plate and
Bonus Mini Drunkard Path Templates
Giant DiahliaNot So Giant Dahlia
Optional Combo Templates Giant Dahlia Quilting Stencil
Giant Diahlia Templates
& Not So Giant Dahlia
each w/ Instruct booklet
Giant Dahlia Quilting Stencil
& Combo Template

2 1/2" Template Set
7 shapes from 3 templates
2 1/2" Stripper Templates Set

Storm at Sea Diamond Templates
Storm at Sea blocks
Storm at Sea
Diamond Template Set


Perfect Patchwork Template Carrier

My Favorite Rulers™ From Marti Michell: 12 sizes and styles

Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers
Diagonal Set Triangle Rulers

60 Degree Triangle Rulers
Easy 60 Degree
Equilateral Triangle

Rulers for Hexagon & Related Shapes


Flying Geese Ruler

cut both triangles for Flying Geese units in 5 sizes!

My Favorite Rulers

8 x 16 miter ruler4 x 16 miter ruler

Kaleidoscope ABC's Kaleidoscope Rulers Magic Mirrors
Kaleido-Krazy Series
Book, Kaleidoscope ABCs
Kaleido-Rulers
Magic Mirrors

Hexagon Ruler
Hexagon Ruler
Cuts (6) sizes
2 to 4 1/2"

Log CavinLog Cabin
Log Cabin ABC's
Log Cabin ABC's

by Marti Michell

Additional Marti Michell Books & Patterns

Template & Pattern
Giant Diahlia
Giant Diahlia
& Not So Giant Diahlia
Templates & Instructions
Book
Machine Quilting in Sections
Machine Quilting in Sections

by Marti Michell
Pattern
Rocky Road by Marti Michel
Rocky Road
Pattern
Linked Chevrons
Linked Chevrons
Pattern
Carolina Lily
Carolina Lily

Giant Dahlia Quilting Stencil
Giant Dahlia Quilting Stencil
Pattern
Texas Gardens

Texas Gardens

Pattern
Downhill Dreamer
Bed of Roses
Downhill Dreamer & Bed of Roses
Sampler Quilts

Pattern
Dresden Homecoming
Dresden Plate Homecoming
Pattern
Stars All Around
Stars All Around


Pattern

Feathered Star Medallion

Marti Michell

Machine Quilting Books

Machine Quilting in Sections
Machine Quilting in Sections

by Marti Michell
Learn to Machine Quilt in 1 Weekend
Learn to Machine Quilt
in Just One Weekend

by Marti Michell
   

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